Again!

Tuamotu Treasure, Again!

A WELL-KNOWN Papeete busi ness man, Mr. Gustave Spitz, who took a Tahiti boxing team to Apia, W. Samoa, in November, is planning to try his luck on the legendary Pinaki treasure, accord ing to our Papeete correspondent.

Madame Spitz, a clairvoyant, re cently received a “message” regard ing the exact location of the treasure on the much-dug Tuamotu atoll.

A lady clairvoyant of Noumea seems also to have received similar “messages” and her services may be retained —together with some elec tronic detecting equipment to check over the ground indicated.

For years, an Australian named Howe trenched all over Pinaki — until, about 1921, after 20 years of lone digging, he was deported.

Early 1934, another rather well equipped expedition headed by a Sydney man, named Sampson, chartered a Papeete schooner, and a few weeks later announced that they had located the 100t —gold images and jewels from Peruvian churches —deep-buried in cases.

They departed to purchase sand pumps and coffer-dam equipment, but they never returned.

if Monsieur Thomas Diffre, Secre tary-General in French Oceania since mid-1953, left Tahiti in De cember to return to France. The position of Secretary-General is an unpopular and difficult one, especi ally in the unsettled circumstances of present French Oceania politics.

M. Diffre was bitterly attacked by

certain members of the Assembl during its November session.

H Capitaine Paul Bagarie, a populs senior gendarme of the Frenc Oceania Police, who had bee stationed in Papeete for the pa four years, departed on transfer : November.